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Driver Rolls Car Trying to Avoid Crash on Highway 23

10/20/2017 -
10:00 AM

Two people have been hospitalized after their vehicle rolled on the highway near New London.

Minnesota State Patrol Sergeant Jesse Grabow says 18-year-old Mohamed Ahmed was driving in an SUV east on Highway 23 near the intersection with Highway 9 Wednesday just before 1:30 p.m. He tried to merge into the left lane Ahmed veered away to avoid a collision, he overreacted and rolled.

Ahmed was taken to Rice Hospital and his passenger, 22-year-old Johnathon Claeys, went to CentraCare Hospital. Both of them had non-life threatening injuries.